Shauntay Grant (she/her) is an author, poet, playwright, and multimedia artist. She holds an MFA in creative writing from the University of British Columbia, and is an associate professor of creative writing at Dalhousie University. A former poet laureate for the city of Halifax, her honors include a Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award, a Joseph S. Stauffer Prize, and a Poet of Honour prize from the Canadian Festival of Spoken Word. She lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Learn more about her at shauntaygrant.com. LetÃcia Moreno (she/her) is an illustrator and comic artist.
A graduate of the School of Fine Arts of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro with a focus in art history, she centers her work around creating Black characters who are cute, colorful, fun, and defiant of stereotypes. Learn more about her at negapeta.com.